文档介绍：广东省揭阳一中2015届高三上学期期中考试英语
命题:揭阳第一中学高三英语备课组
Ⅰ语言知识及应用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节: 完形填空(共15小题; 每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从 1―15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One night, when I was eight, my mother gently asked me a question I would never forget. “Sweetie, pany wants to ___1 ___ me but needs me to work in Brazil. This is like your teacher telling that you’ve done well and allowing you to skip a grade(跳级), but you’ll have to___2___ your friends. Would you say yes to your ___3___?” She gave me a hug and asked me to think about it. I was puzzled. The question kept me___4___ for the rest of the night I had said “yes” but for the first time, I realized the___5___decisions adults had to make.
For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I’d___6___wait for the phone to ring and then tell her every detail of my day. A phone call, however, could never replace her ___7___and it was difficult not to feel lonely at times.
During my fourth-grade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large___8___apartment, I became aware of how lonely my mother must have been in Brazil herself. It was then that I started to appreciate the tough choices she had to make on___9___family and work. Faced with difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn’t know whether you made the right choice, but you could always make the best out of the situatio